Finding Holiness in Messiness: A New Spiritual Perspective

And so what I was thinking is that in many ways the predominant spiritual narrative in North America right now, I feel as a pastor is that it is taking other people's messiness and turning it into order. But instead, my view right now is let's look at what we think is messy and see what's holy in that. Let's see how we can affirm where amazing spiritual things are happening. Whatever you might call it, if you call it God or if you have other viewpoints, if something you initially feel is a little bit messy, like, get curious, get involved in it and just observe and let it be.

And maybe there's some great lesson in there for you because I'm starting to see that happen with me. Right. I'm in recovery and so many people have different approaches to recovery and they're not my same approach. As a white male Christian pastor with a background primarily in Christianity, I need to get curious and see what other people are up to and what's nourishing them.